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Letter: Bundy disputes bargain fees, costing taxpayers

SAL
9:12 p.m. PDT April 25, 2014

The Bundy family and their supporters fly the American flag as their cattle is released by the Bureau of Land Management back onto public land outside of Bunkerville, Nev., on April 12.
(Photo:
Jason Bean
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AP
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Clearly this paper has a bigger right-wing readership than it does the left based on the paper's polls.

Wednesday, April 16, it was about rancher Cliven Bundy in Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management.

All ranchers pay grazing fees. Ask ranchers who have always followed the law what they think of Cliven Bundy not paying anything for more than 20 years.

The average fees charged by the private sector to allow other ranchers to graze cattle on their private land is $20 per head of cattle per month.

The state of Nevada charges $10 per and the federal government charges $1.35 per head.

The Bundy family is sticking it to us — the taxpayer.

Currently, there are 18,000 permits on 157 million acres to allow grazing on our federal lands and ranchers pay it gladly because it is a bargain. Right now, Bundy has 900 head of cattle grazing for free. Other ranchers are not supporting Cliven Bundy.

And who's leading the on air charge against the BLM and encouraging this? None other then Sean Hannity who is fueling the fire and, in essence, encouraging violence.

Even Republican Joe Scarborough called Bundy an anarchist and said he is wrong on every level.